Must Not Sleep

In this podiobook: By turns hilarious and chilling, poet and novelist Michael Brownstein's latest novel MUST NOT SLEEP is a shamanic initiation into personal freedom -- political, emotional, and sexual -- which uncovers the secrets behind the destructive

Episode 1 - Must Not Sleep 12/24/2007

Episode 1 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Episode Description #01: Pulling us right into the shaman's realm of shapeshifting and trance, Chapter One relates how Isaac has a series of mind-shattering dreams which incinerate his previous self-image of hesitation and compromise. Nothing fazes h /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16544

Episode 2 - Must Not Sleep 12/23/2007

Episode 2 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Episode Description #02: Isaac meets Georgia, a woman also determined to erase her past. Together they take a megadose of medicine, during which they merge joyfully with each other and, in a comical tour de force, are forcibly purged of the toxic deb /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16545

Episode 3 - Must Not Sleep 12/22/2007

Episode 3 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Episode Description #03: Isaac still isn't free of his rage as a political activist, when he had a visitation from extraterrestrials trying to show him something he was unwilling to see. Believing he's begun a new life, instead he is swept into the d /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16546

Episode 4 - Must Not Sleep 12/21/2007

Episode 4 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Episode Description #04: Isaac realizes that Georgia is only intermittently in possession of herself. Refusing to listen to his discoveries about 9/11, she reveals that she knows one of his deepest secrets. Spooked for real, calling out to the spirit /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16547

Episode 5 - Must Not Sleep 12/20/2007

Episode 5 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Episode Description #05: Isaac learns that Georgia's father was an abusive, controlling figure whose behavior toward her as a child she's too traumatized to remember. They leave her apartment to wander Manhattan's streets, where for the first time he /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16548

Episode 6 - Must Not Sleep 12/19/2007

Episode 6 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: From below Georgia's apartment comes the nonstop noise of a TV, infuriating Isaac. Disregarding her warning, he confronts the menacing old man whom Georgia calls "Papa," who pulls Isaac into his lair and educates him in the ways of the worl /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16549

Episode 7 - Must Not Sleep 12/18/2007

Episode 7 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Isaac discovers that the old man Georgia calls "Papa" can operate outside of space and time--except that, unlike shamans, his agenda is not to heal but to destroy. But his heart is failing. He begs for the healing light pouring from Isaac's /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16550

Episode 8 - Must Not Sleep 12/17/2007

Episode 8 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Waiting in vain for Georgia's return, Isaac reprimands himself for not helping the old man downstairs, who has vanished. He is visited by Georgia's old friend Janine. Soon they make love, with Isaac asking her to join him in loving everyone and Janin /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16551

Episode 9 - Must Not Sleep 12/16/2007

Episode 9 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Isaac encounters more people with barcodes on their foreheads: are they alien entities or normal, law-abiding citizens? He enters a store and watches the Vice-President deliver a speech on TV about the necessity of invading Iraq. That voice, that fac /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16552

Episode 10 - Must Not Sleep 12/15/2007

Episode 10 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Isaac has a clairvoyant vision of the Vice-President in Washington D.C., striding into an elevator which descends deep underground. He understands he will have to confront Dick in his secret hideaway. Then he finally finds Georgia and rescues her fro /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16553

Episode 11 - Must Not Sleep 12/14/2007

Episode 11 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Calling out to his power animal, Isaac rides the eagle's wings to the Vice-President's residence. Taking Dick's elevator deep underground, he emerges into a desert landscape and looks on as Dick and a tall Arab man engage in amorous play. Dick implor /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16554

Episode 12 - Must Not Sleep 12/13/2007

Episode 12 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Dick notices Isaac watching him and Osama. Enraged, shotgun in hand, he forces Isaac to dig a hole in the desert where he buries him alive. Ravaged by hunger and thirst, Isaac hallicinates, crying out to his power animal not to forsake him and singin /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16555

Episode 13 - Must Not Sleep 12/12/2007

Episode 13 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Rescued by the same extraterrestrials he had encountered long before, Isaac is taken to a military base where he comes upon a top-secret research project to create the new Americans: docile, intelligent, and conformist. Secretary of Defense Dan and V /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16556

Episode 14 - Must Not Sleep 12/11/2007

Episode 14 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Needing a refuge before Dick's agents find them, Isaac and Georgia accompany Janine to her cabin in the Catskills. Janine looks forward to the three of them in bed together but soon feels she can't match their passion for each other and returns to Ne /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16557

Episode 15 - Must Not Sleep 12/10/2007

Episode 15 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Georgia finally processes what her father did to her when she was six years old. She sees the Vice-President give a speech on TV and realizes that he and her father are one and the same. But Isaac insists there's more: Dick is an emissary of aliens e /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16558

Episode 16 - Must Not Sleep 12/09/2007

Episode 16 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Isaac tells Georgia that Dick operates in a multidimensional realm free of the constraints of ordinary reality. "You've been there too," he says, and he reminds her of the time she revealed a secret of his which no one could possibly have k /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16559

Episode 17 - Must Not Sleep 12/08/2007

Episode 17 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Taking the train from New York to Washington D.C., Isaac and Georgia ride the elevator down to the Vice-President's hideaway. Dick's heart is worse than ever. He hopes that Isaac can save him and invites the couple into his cabin where they see a man /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16560

Episode 18 - Must Not Sleep 12/07/2007

Episode 18 - Must Not Sleep -In this episode: Georgia ministers to Osama while Dick admits that his extraterrestrial brethren are waiting impatiently for earthlings to destroy themselves. Isaac performs a shamanic healing, sucking black goo out of the old man's heart until a transformed Dick app /episode/index/show/mustnotsleep/id/16561

Must Not Sleep

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